Hi Werner,

Probably a bit late at this point but
when you insert a picture in Word you can use
the Format=Picture=/Web\ tab to add descriptive
text that will appear next to the picture name
when you use the Select Multiple Objects Command.

Except for graphics formatted as 'inline with text'
(where you can use the Edit=Replace commands to
some extent to modify the inserted graphics), the
Select Multiple Objects tool should let you adjust
shadow settings, line settings and fill colors.

As another approach you can setup one graphic with
attributes you like and then use the Format Painter tool
to apply it to other graphics, either individually or
ones you select with the Multiple Object Tool.

You could save a 'sample' graphic with the formatting
'style' you like as an autotext entry and use it to
be the pallette you copy to the format painter to apply
to your other graphics then delete that graphic again
after its use as a reference item.
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"Werner" wrote in message oups.com...
Thanks, Bob.

I didn't know there is a dialog box where I can pick shapes by name.
Since it seems that I cannot arrange the predefined names differently I
still have to go thru the whole document visually (around 200 pages)
and find all shapes with a certain format. And I have to do this all
over again if I want to change the overall layout of my document.
I thought there was a trick to define something like a format style for
shapes, which I can change and for example the corresponding
rectangles immediately get more 3D-depth.

Alternatively forming groups of shapes would be fine, but seems not to
extend beyond a single page.

I already considered writing a makro which picks up all similar shapes
and reformats them.

Werner
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